Robots & Empire

It didn’t make them unusual to avoid trips. Aurorans generally -Spacers generally, for that matter- tended to be stay-at homes. Their worlds, their establishments, were too comfortable. After all, what pleasure could be greater than that of being taken care of by your own robots, robots who knew your every signal, and, for that matter, knew your ways and desires even without being told.

She stirred uneasily. Was that what D.G. had meant when he spoke of the decadence of a roboticized society?